Untitled, from the series Cosmicstrip

Matta began to devote himself to print media during the late 1950s, mastering a number of complex color printmaking techniques. Many of these prints recall Matta’s painted “inscapes,” which seek to represent the interior space of the mind and juxtapose recognizable geometric shapes with more organic elements. The title of this series, Cosmicstrip, conveys the artist’s fondness for wordplay by wittily combining “comic strip,” suggestive of an animated narrative, with “cosmic,” an adjective often used to describe Matta’s vast universes.